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Hi

I would like to get your help please. First, I dont use Disc2Phone. I use Windows Explorer, drag-and-drop, to put files on my W800i.

Everything works fine, except that, Windows copies files in a non-alphabetical way. Hence, when I try to access the folder in Walkman Media Player...the tracks in any album are out of order. This is so frustrating!!!

Copying in order wont help because everytime I would like to add new tracks to the same album (yes I do that ) the order again is out of sync.

Is there any way to solve the problem. Atleast arrange the tracks in an alphabetical order after they are put on the W800i.

Would like to have your views.

Thanks!!!
Guy.
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Posted: 2006-03-03 17:09:51
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Very true- if someone could answer this issue that would be great because it annoys me too. What i have to do is create playlists from the folders of MP3s i have on my phone and select the option 'Sort > By Title'.
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Posted: 2006-03-03 17:28:08
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Ditto... I have the same problem and was thinking about updating my firmware from R1L002 to see if this helps (from this message board and others, I seem to think this may cause more problems than it is worth).
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Posted: 2006-03-03 18:05:22
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Hi Guys,

I'm the author of iTunesMyPortable (http://www.iTunesMyPortable.com) and I can tell you first hand that this really baffled me as well when I was first writing the program. From my experiences with trying to properly order/sort music in the W800's Walkman music player, here's what's happening:

The Walkman music player's "Artists" song list ALWAYS views songs as being sorted by the track number ID3 tags whereas the "Tracks" song list doesn't! It ALWAYS views them as being sorted by their filenames instead.

Therefore, if you want to play the songs in the same track order as you copy them over to the phone, then you have to start playing the songs from the "Tracks" song list rather than the "Artists/Album" song list.

There are also quirks with the Walkman music player's sort feature as well (which comes into play when you are actually playing the songs on the Walkman player and not just viewing them in the "Artists/Album" or "Tracks" lists)...

The sort action taken by the "As created" sort option in the Walkman music player depends upon how the list of songs was created by the music player. From the "Artists/Album" song list, the songs are sorted by their track number ID3 tags. Whereas in the "Tracks" song list, the songs are sorted by their filenames instead. This is because this is the order in which the song list itself was fist "created as".

Unfortunately, this makes playing the songs (from the Walkman player's "Artist/Album" song list) in the same track order as you copied the songs over to the phone impossible (as the list was first created based upon the track number ID3 tags rather than the file names).

In iTunesMyPortable, I get around this limitation imposed by the "Album/Artist" song list by simply forcing the song's track number to be its playlist index instead. I've created a "Preserve playlist order when copying audio files to the Mass Storage Device" option/preference in the program, that when checked, adds the songs' playlist index to the beginning of the track name (instead of the normal disc and/or track number) and this results in the songs being ordered just as you want them to be (or just as you'd expect them to be).

It would obviously be a real pain to do that manually to each song you copy over to the phone (and so most folks will never do it). That's what makes a program like iTunesMyPortable so great. It can automatically do all of that (and much more) for you on-the-fly.

I hope this helps explain things some.

-- MIKE

[ This Message was edited by: OfficeMaven on 2006-03-04 17:34 ]
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Posted: 2006-03-04 17:40:19
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